Uncle Tom's Cabin

For your assigned topic, provide the following information...
1. When did it happen?
2. Provide relevant background to the event.
3. Who were the key people involved - and what were their roles?
4. Provide a one-paragraph summary of the important elements of this event/topic.
5. Identify and describe any/all key terms associated with this event/topic.
6. Explain the significance of the event - especially as it relates to worsening relationship between the North and South.

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Question	Answer
1.	Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in 1852.
2.	Sold 300,000 copies in the first books in the first year. It is one of the most influential books about a black man named Uncle Tom who is unfailingly submissive to his white masters. Stowe's critic of slavery is based on her belief of domestic values and family security. "Slavery's violation of those values, in its denial of that security, is what made it so abhorrent to her." Portayed the humanity and suffering of slaves and wrote it out of deep moral conviction. Performed as a stage play. She wrote it as a response to the 1850 passage of the second fugitive slave act.
3.	Harriet Beecher Stowe is the key person involved who is the author of the book.
4.	Harriet Beecher Stowe is a women's rights abolitionsist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. The book follows a journey of a man who is sold away om his family who is named Uncle Tom. He faces many of the delemas that the simple, decent, female heroins of other sentimental novels encounter in their struggles to find securtiy and tranquility in their life. This story horrified northners, and gave the southerners a twinge of conscience.
5.	An abolitionist is someone who supports antislavery. A fugitive slave is a runaway slave. The fugitive slave laws allowed southerners to track down and prosecute their runaway slaves in the north. The underground railroad is a series of safe houses used to transport slaves safely to the north.
6.	The significance of this was that it got the point across to the south which caused them to become more defensive about their slave holding rights. They even went as far as to ban Northern text books in southern schools. This increase split between the North and the South. The benefit of this story was that although it caused more tensions, it also increased abolitionism.

Ali S. Peter F. Zack G. Hannah M.

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Question	Answer
1.When it happened	1852
2.Background	It was a book written by Harriet Beacher Stowe, who was considered one of the most influential writers. It was based on her belief in the importance of domestic values and family security. A sentimental novel about an African-American slave who is "unfailingly submissive" to his white masters.
3.Key People	Harriet Beacher Stowe - wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin as abolition propaganda. Also wrote The Minister Wooing, My Wife and i, We and Our Neighboors which all portrayed triumphs of women, especially African Americans.
4.Summary	A novel about a loyal slave and his master, it was said that Uncle Tom's Cabin "helped many the groundwork for the Civil War". It excited Northern abolitionists and angered Southerns to the point where everybody knew war was on the way. Uncle Tom's Cabin also showed that Stowe was for the women's rights movement. It was the second best-selling book of it's time, next to the Bible. It effected many people, opening their eyes to the cold truth about slavery.
5.Key Terms	Abolition Movement - the movement to end slavery. Women's Sufferage - the right for women to vote.
6.Significance	Stowe writing Uncle Tom's Cabin created mass contraversy, showing that a war between the North and the South was looming. Even Abraham Lincoln acknowledged the "war" that Stowe started with her novel.
	Amanda Cefaratti, Brandon "Hobo" Gary, James Dumont, Jackie Dubois

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Question	Answer
1.	The book was published in 1852.
2.	Uncle Tom’s cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was about a slave in the south named Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe grew up in Connecticut and was considered an abolitionist. Stowes father, brother and husband were also abolitionists, and evangelical ministers. Stowe wrote the book because she was angry about the new fugitive slave act that was passed with the comprise of 1850. She wanted to graphically display the institution of slavery and not in a romanticized way like some southerners portrayed it as. She also wanted to show how slavery corrupted Christian values in blacks and white. Lastly, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was used to show union soldiers the horrors of slavery and why they were fighting to have it abolished.
3.	The key person involved was Reverend Josiah Henison. The book was written about him in which it recongnized his contrubutions to the abolition movement. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book in 1852.
4.	The book Uncle Toms Cabin showed many people what it was like to be a slave and the hardships that they had to incounter. It showed what slavery was really like in the south and not how southerners romanticized it. It caused southerners to publish books such as Aunt Phillis's Cabin written by Mary Henderson which was about how slaves enjoyed being slaves and how slaveholders never whipped or punished their slaves. The book was the most significant nonviolent act that caused aboltionist to fight for the north. In addition to this, it was used to show union soldiers why they were fighting for the abolishment of slavery. The south conisdered the work of literature as criminal and denyed selling the book in some bookstores. The book was by far the most influentioal factor that caused people realize why slavery needed to end.
5.			Stowe bases her portrayals of Black people on the African Americans she had known in Cincinnati, where they worked as her domestic servernt. They told her stories about being sold South to Louisana. Stowe used techniques commonly found in dmestic novels. THe Saetity of the family, the power of regligion, the triumph of endurance to show that black people had tghe same feeling as white people.
6.	Reaction to the polictial climate at the time. Beecher was inspired by the passage of fugitive slave act and she came up with her goal to expose inhummanity of slavery. It inspired a new guide of literature. It was also a literary value in the 1850's.

Tim Ouellette, Marissa Rioux, Awn Ali, Sarah Lapierre.